By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japanese web company Nifty (3828) plans to capitalize on Japan’s social games market boom. Nifty today said it will help local social game developers to offer their titles outside Japan. Services will include cloud computing and support in local payment solutions, translations and advertising...
It looks like GREE is following up on their announcement from last summer to accelerate its internationalization efforts. The company just set up a special job section on their official website, looking for people to hire all over the globe (engineers, smartphone developers, HR managers, PR people...
GREE is expanding its business from social games to online ads. The company just acquired Tokyo-based ad exchange service Atlantis for $26 million. The company will be turned into a 100% GREE subsidiary. Atlantis was founded in 2007 and has a 15-people team. With the acquisition, GREE wants to...
There are many examples, but these came to my mind right now. 1) Twitter: Twitter has been growing at a spectacular pace in 2010 in Japan. They now have well over 10 million users, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the real number would be closer to 15 million (Twitter isn’t providing...
I just posted an article on Asiajin on GREE having announced the opening of an office in San Francisco. Read it here: GREE opens subsidiary in the US. If GREE succeeds in the US, it would be the first web company from Japan in history. I am skeptical personally, but I am even more skeptical of...
Major Japanese tech blog TechWave is today running a story on how Japan’s social games market has evolved from 2009 to 2010 and how it will grow until 2014. According to Seed Planning, the market research company behind the analysis, Japan’s social game market grew 305% from 2009 to 2010...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry